Funny newsletters to sign up for7/29/2023 ![]() For the uninitiated, it’s an Australian cartoon about a family of heeler pups, and I was sort of gobsmacked by how good it was-sensitive, perceptive, funny. Something delightful introduced to me by a kid in my life: Everyone who has young kids is already familiar with Bluey, I’m sure, but I saw it for the first time a couple of months ago while visiting a friend back home who has two small children. I showed it to my mom a few years ago, and now when I call her, she sometimes laments that she’s been too busy to do as much coloring as she’d like. It requires just enough of your attention to be the perfect thing to do while you’re listening to a podcast or half-watching something on TV. Some of them are familiar-there’s a whole category of historical fine art, which is my favorite-and some of them are genuinely bizarre, such as the one with a cartoon cat wearing a feathered cap and reading a book by candlelight. My favorite way of wasting time on my phone: I’m addicted to this app called Happy Color, which is basically just a huge catalog of color-by-number puzzles, plus a few new pictures to color every day. Without Nighthawks, the smaller, quieter moments of the exhibit-apt, considering Hopper’s subjects-had more room to breathe. Some works of art are so famous that their presence can suck all the air out of a room. What it does not include is Nighthawks, and I came away thinking that the show benefited from its absence. The exhibit runs until March 5 and includes many of Hopper’s more famous works, such as Automat and Early Sunday Morning, as well as a large selection of lesser-known paintings. The last museum or gallery show that I loved: “Edward Hopper’s New York,” at the Whitney Museum of American Art. ![]() So my brother and I told him, among other things, that we had Bruce tickets for the upcoming tour. My dad passed away a few months ago, and when we were at the hospital to say goodbye, the palliative-care doctor told us that we should say things that would reassure him that we would be okay, and that we would take care of one another. When Bruce’s next tour came through Atlanta, we went back to see him as a family-even Mom, who had been outvoted by that point. I loved it so much that he began playing more Springsteen in the car for me and my little brother, and suddenly Dad had two teenage Bruce fans on his hands. came out in 1973, swapped me in at the last minute. My first concert was one of the Atlanta dates during his E Street Band reunion tour in 2000 my parents were supposed to go together but my mom isn’t much of a Bruce fan and hates crowds, so my dad, who had adored him since Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. Ī musical artist who means a lot to me: Bruce Springsteen. I went in knowing relatively little about The Troubles, and Keefe so expertly wove the historical record into the personal stories of some of the IRA’s most infamous members that the reading experience was sometimes closer to that of a novel than a political or military history. The best nonfiction book I’ve read in years was Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe. John Mandel-a novel about wealth and talent and escape that I found so spellbinding, I devoured it in a weekend. īest novel I’ve recently read, and the best work of nonfiction: I’m a few years late on both of these, but I adored The Glass Hotel by Emily St. Newman was 61 when that movie came out, and he was every bit as sexy and magnetic and watchable as he had been 20 or 30 years prior. I recently saw The Color of Money for the first time, in which he plays an aging pool hustler. That’s a very long way of saying that I’m currently obsessed with Perfect Match, a genuinely very stupid Netflix dating show made up entirely of villains, reprobates, and fan favorites from other, equally stupid Netflix dating shows like Love Is Blind and Too Hot to Handle, both of which I have also watched.Īn actor I would watch in anything: Paul Newman. After the Super Bowl spits me back out into the world of regular television, I always spend a few weeks wandering the desert, looking for something I can get into, or at least something that’s fun enough to watch in the meantime. The television show I’m most enjoying right now: I’m a huge college-football fan ( Go Dawgs), and I have a lot of friends who are really into their NFL teams, so from Labor Day through early February, when I’m watching something, it’s almost always a football game. Permission-slip culture is hurting America. ![]() The puzzling gap between how old you are and how old you think you are.
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